Fellow Nurse Dept: Adelta graduated in nursing from Pembroke Cottage Hospital during the Depression and found work as a private-duty nurse. She and a fellow nurse once spent their savings on modest fur coats, then laughingly decided to have them insured, according to The Globe and Mail. John died of complications from hypertension in 1956, leaving Adelta a widow in her mid-40s. She resumed nursing in the children’s ward of Plummer Memorial Hospital. She also had to deal with the dilemma of a son who, despite speech and learning disabilities, read voraciously about subjects of interest to him – geography, shipping and rail transportation. Eventually, David was placed at Sault College, where he worked in the library and print shop and delivered internal mail and her mother Christena died young, succumbing after an accident while burning brush. She had, however, managed to instruct son Tom, 4, to leave baby Rubena in her crib and walk with two-year-old Adelta to get help. Relatives took in the children. Adelta was raised by a childless aunt and uncle while her father David ran the family farm. In 1936, Adelta married John McNutt, a Scots-Irish immigrant and First World War veteran who worked for the T. Eaton store in Pembroke, Ont. They married and were transferred to Temiscaming, Que., where David was born. Eaton’s sent the young family to Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., in 1942, where Marion was born. As
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